The Last Great Adventure Is You
The Last Great Adventure Is You
Rosebud Ben-Oni
"Rosebud Ben-Oni makes quantum leaps in this second volume of her Discovery trilogy, galloping with Icelandic horses across post-apocalyptic realms of shimmering verse and the Multiverse. These poems show us how infinity resides within the bldy hooves that mark the snow and in the trailing arc of fallen stars. Here is a surrealist poetry of proton and wishbone, of northern lights and stained glass shards, of blood and bloodline, and of dazzling, extraterrestrial possibilities."
—Deborah Paredez, author of Year of the Dog
June 2027
ISBN: 9781967149964
Available in both print and digital formats.
Rosebud Ben-Oni is the author of several collections, including the forthcoming The Last Great Adventure is You (Alice James Books, 2027) and If This is the Age We End Discovery (2021), which won the Alice James Award and was a Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. Her work has been commissioned by Paramount, the National September 11th Memorial, and the Museum of Jewish Heritage. She has received grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts, Queens Arts Fund, Cafe Royal Foundation, Queens Council on the Arts and CantoMundo. Her work appears in POETRY, APR, The Writer's Chronicle, Academy of American Poets, Poetry Society of America, The Poetry Review, Poetry Wales, Tin House, among others.
Additional Praise:
“What is this delicacy of seeing so deep into the now, which is also the future? What is exposed, what stays hidden. How to live in between worlds when maybe that’s better than being somewhere. These poems immediately take us inside, over there, through, unraveling and praising simultaneously in their knowing, which is beyond this plane of existence, following love’s arrow, leading with brokenness and the wholeness of speech. Unlike any other book, to read The Last Great Adventure Is You is to witness the beautiful mind of Rosebud Ben-Oni."
—Jan Beatty, author of Dragstripping
"Rosebud Ben-Oni is a mind-blowing poet of manifold dimensions, as attuned to subatomic vibrations of the heart as to the turquoise radiance of magnetic pulsars firing across the cosmos. In The Last Great Adventure Is You, Ben-Oni crafts a celestial bestiary of starhorses and golden calves, pageants of pegasi and merpeople, fallen angels and Alpha Centaurians. Through otherworldly verses, Ben-Oni wrangles holy, equine figures into frame and beckons readers into the :: wild unplace ::of her imagination."
—Diego Báez, author of Yaguareté White
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